2014 wiki write off

Welcome to AAPG's inaugural Wiki Write Off! The winning chapter of the Fall 2014 competition will receive a check for $500.

Instructions

Each chapter who wishes to participate must:

1. Write and post 5 wiki articles to the AAPG wiki page on geoscience topics of their choice
2. Send an e-mail with the titles of their five articles, the name and address of the chapter, and the names of the students who helped author the articles to [email protected]
3. Complete the previous two items no later than 1 December 2014

The articles will be judged by the AAPG Wiki Advisory Board and the AAPG Senior Associate Editor Board. The judges will select one article from all articles submitted to be the winning article based on:

1. Quality of science
2. Completeness
3. Quality of writing

The winning article and Student Chapter will be announced in mid-January 2015.

Suggested pages

A few suggested topics for articles include:

• STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY
  • Growth fault
  • Syncline
  • Fracture
  • Strike
  • Dip
• PLATE TECTONICS
  • Plate tectonics
  • Crust
  • Mantle
  • Continental drift
  • Subduction
• GEOPHYSICS
  • Interval transit time
  • Amplitude (seismic)
  • Two-way traveltime
  • Prestack
  • Poststack
• SEDIMENTOLOGY AND STRATIGRAPHY
  • Sandstone
  • Siltstone
  • Depositional environments
  • Diagenesis
• MATH, STATISTICS, ECONOMICS
  • Risk analysis
  • Global supply and demand issues
  • Peak oil
  • Historic plays or fields
• PALEONTOLOGY
  • Paleogeography
  • Paleoecology
  • Miocene, Pliocene, etc.
• GEOCHEMISTRY
  • Ro
  • Gas chromatograms
  • RockEval
    • Some material exists on this but The AAPG Wiki needs better descriptions and application for S1 and S2 especially
  • Hydrocarbon
  • Burial history
• LOG ANALYSIS
  • Modern logs - interpretation
  • Old logs - interpretation
  • Mud information - interpretation
  • Pressure test interpretation
• ENGINEERING
  • Reservoir engineering (all aspects)
  • Reserve estimation
  • Fracking
  • Directional drilling
  • Geosteering
• OTHER
  • Seal
  • Reservoir
  • Map - How to make and how to read geologic maps
  • Cross section - How to build and appropriate applications
  • LIDAR
  • Ground water
  • Coal bed methane
  • Karst